Republicans to DCCC: Please Drag Us Through This Briar Patch
According to this Roll Call article, the DCCC is attempting to drag six Republicans through the proverbial briar patch for not voting for ARRA. Here’s what Roll Call is reporting:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running radio advertisements for the next week targeting six House Republicans, according to details obtained by Roll Call. The committee blasted these GOP Members for voting against Democrats’ Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which passed earlier this year.
Radio advertisements, automated calls and e-mails will target Reps. Don Young (Alaska), Brian Bilbray (Calif.), Tom Rooney (Fla.), Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.), Peter King (N.Y.) and Charlie Dent (Pa.).
“Did you know Congressman King voted against the economic recovery plan?” says an announcer in the spot running in King’s district. “He opposed an $800 tax cut and opposed creating or saving 215,000 New York jobs. Tell King to put New York first.”
In addition to the radio advertisement, which is scheduled to air during drive time, automatic phone calls will run in each of the Republicans’ districts. The automated calls refer to specific projects in the districts that could be funded by the stimulus, such as widening a road in McCotter’s district.
I hope the DCCC doesn’t deviate from this line of attack. The DCCC maintaining this attack will be further proof that they aren’t taking the tea parties seriously. Gateway Pundit points out that the DCCC apparently didn’t get California’s message.
Let’s hope that the DCCC keeps thinking that Rep. McCotter and Rep. King are vulnerable. One thing that they obviously think is that they aren’t vulnerable on the spending front, which they are. (NOTE TO NRSC: Crist is vulnerable there, too.)
People questioned whether the Tax Day Tea Parties were a passing fad or a force to be reckoned with. After participating in St. Cloud’s Tax Day Tea Party, I confidently said that this movement has legs. After Californians shot down the liberals’ attempt to keep spending like drunken sailors, I said that this was essentially the the Tea Party Movement’s second ‘event’.
I haven’t seen proof that the Tea Party Movement is showing signs that it’s slowing down. In fact, with states like Montana, Utah and Texas starting what might best be titled a ‘Tenth Amendment movement’, this movement likely will get stronger, not weaker in the near future.
Technorati Tags: DCCC, Advertising, ARRA, TARP, Democrats, Thaddeus McCotter, Don Young, Brian Billbray, Tom Rooney, Charlie Dent, Peter King, Republicans, Election 2010
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
In the case of Brian Bilbray, and I suppose the others, the DC3 is after him because he fights back, isnt intimidated of being labelled a conservative by the ACORN goons, and won with something like 57% last time despite a shitload lot of money spent on his opponent.